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The Chinese writing system, along with its descendants, uses a very large set of thousands of logographical characters, which are named differently in each language: hanzi in Chinese, kanji in Japanese, hanja in Korean and chữ Nôm in Vietnamese. While popular myth says they are all pictographic, i.e., show pictures of what represent, this is usually false for even the most basic objects, even if through obfuscation from simplification.[a] Most of these characters are instead composed of
This web application then attempts to make it easier to memorize each character by displaying one only for a short amount of time, training your brain to make compact representations of each character. Or at least I think that's what it does. I haven't researched at all if this method works, and I may or may not have reinvented flashcards. Whatever. Sunk cost fallacy. I still spent some time developing this so it's just here now.
The full database as well as the code used to generate and interpret it may be found at ./lib.
The code written by me made to parse the data files is licensed under the GNU General Public License 3 (view).
The data files are from: